Krista Detor - A Traveler In Winter lyrics

A TRAVELER IN WINTER © Krista Detor, The Silver Wood: Wintersongs Inspired by T.S. Eliot & Herbert Trench She looked like a drifter who had washed up on the shore A dress of seaweed hanging on her, dripping water on my floor Another traveler in winter, I suppose Get some warm clothes And night she brought in with her, when the moon rose Her hair was matted up with bits of shell and muddy sand And I built the fire and set a cup of brandy in her hand Why it was me that found her, I never knew But night settled around her while the wind blew I open up my house, don't mind a stranger on my land The floor is dirt, the walls are wood, and sometimes I am stone, I am hardened by the water And the wild wind And night, it laid upon her, on her white skin I say, "Steal away the things you hear and most of what you see Don't let your secrets long betray you to anyone and not to me I heard the mermaids whisper once And I told what I knew But no one would consider that the song was true." Then night awoke within her, in the dark blue And across her face, the stars came out and lit the cloudless climes In all the world and every place I saw her grace a thousand times When night is on the hillside and the voices roll in from sea By starlight and by dreamlight she comes to me... I find them in the Spring and I am always glad to see All the dresses spun in seaweed lying on the shore for me I heard the mermaids singing Like the poet said they do And I go on believing that they call you ...